If You’ve Shopped at a Lucky Supermarket Recently, Your Identity May Have Been Stolen

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With a name like Lucky … oh the irony. At least 100 people have already had their bank accounts infiltrated by some wily identity thieves who attached credit card "skimmers" to card scanners at self-checkout stands at 23 Northern California Lucky stores. The Save Mart supermarket chain, which owns Lucky, discovered the problem early last month and sent out a customer advisory on November 23. As multiple news sources are reporting, the company is now urging customers who used self-checkout stands at any of the affected stores (listed below) to close their bank accounts immediately.

This includes shoppers at San Francisco’s Lucky store on Sloat Boulevard. The company says it has now checked all of its 233 stores, and only the 23 below had their machines tampered with. They insist that the card readers are now allsafe.

So far, the majority of identity theft victims, strangely, were store employees. In total, 23 customers and 80 store employees have reported fraudulent charges on their accounts. The skimmers, now removed, stole debit card and pin numbers as well as personal information that allowed the thieves to access victims’accounts.

Talk about an unlucky PR nightmare. Any Lucky customer who finds fraudulent charges on their debit or credit card should contact the store’s Customer Support Center at800.692.5710.